Open dialogue – a space for reader
response
I am writing in reference to an item in ‘Open
Dialogue' Issue 42 May 2006, A Hindu Prayer. In your platform for freedom and
exchange do you want to offer the leavings of other religions? Are you casting
your net outside of Christianity? In Christian belief prayer is like a corridor
through Christ, leading to or reaching the Father. Other religions do not
direct prayer through Jesus Christ and do not reach the Father.
What do they reach? Something else, or worse –
nothing. I think that by adopting prayers and wisdom words from other religions
we are suggesting that the Christian faith has lost its potency for us and we
are shopping elsewhere. I think this prayer might sound acceptable to a
Christian because the wording is similar to some of the great hymns of praise
to be found in the Bible and even Christian liturgies, but let's make no
mistake, a Hindu prayer is a Hindu prayer.
I really appreciate the items ‘Twelve Symptoms of a
Glenys Brookbanks